Mar. 15.
Bonougs of shamrocks will be for sale in Covent Garden this morning and the flower girls in St, Paul's Churchyard and down Ludgate Hill will be humming "Pig a most distressful country as ever yet was seen; they're hanging men and women for the wearing' o' the green." For St. Patrick's day is drawing near and all Irishmen and many English will wear the emblem of Ireland on the national holiday. Irishmen wear the little three-leaved symbol out of a passionate devation to the ''Isle of Saints'' and their desire that out of the present turmoil and strife there may emerge a settlement honourable to Britain and satisfactory to Ireland. It is one of the deepest disappointments the end of the war has brought that instead of harmony and goodwill there should loom over Ireland the dark clouds of anarchy and murder, It is evident that at least a large number of Irishmen have embraced the doctrines of the Sinn Fein party, and Sinn Fein, at its worst, has determined that it will pause at no crime however foul and shrink from no outrage however dastardly in order "to make Ireland free." These democrats are no nicer in their choice of means to attain their ends than was Cesar Borgia or Richard the Third or any of the tyrants whose names stain the pages of history. The lure of power dazzles them and as kings have waded through blood to a throne they determine to tread the same path towards self-determination.
Trishmen frequently complain that Britons fail to understand them. In this case there is much trath in the statement. That a man can be brave, honourable, generous and warm-hearted and'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.